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Another book recommendation for you all:
The Know It All by AJ Jacobs. It's half memoir, half useless fact reference book. It's about the year that the author spent reading The Encyclopaedia Britannica cover to cover. It's not especially profound, though it has its moments. Mostly, it was just a fun, easy read. Jacobs has a style reminiscent of David Sedaris in its self-deprecation, and his adventures navigating through the EB, Mensa conventions, interviews with the intelligentsia, as well as his personal life with his family, is entertaining.
It's a burger-and-beer kind of book. Filling, fun, unpretentious, and easy.
The Know It All by AJ Jacobs. It's half memoir, half useless fact reference book. It's about the year that the author spent reading The Encyclopaedia Britannica cover to cover. It's not especially profound, though it has its moments. Mostly, it was just a fun, easy read. Jacobs has a style reminiscent of David Sedaris in its self-deprecation, and his adventures navigating through the EB, Mensa conventions, interviews with the intelligentsia, as well as his personal life with his family, is entertaining.
It's a burger-and-beer kind of book. Filling, fun, unpretentious, and easy.